Gerd Hurm
Gerd Hurm (born June 12, 1958 in Oberndorf am Neckar ) is a German professor of American studies and director of the Trier Center for American Studies. Gerd Hurm is the son of the artist Karl Hurm .
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Gerd Hurm grew up as the son of the painter Karl Hurm in the Haigerloch district of Weildorf , went to school in Weildorf and Haigerloch and passed his Abitur at the grammar school in Balingen . From 1980 to 1986 he studied English, German and geography at the University of Freiburg . As an exchange student, he attended King's College London , and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He received his master's degree in 1986, his doctorate in 1989 and his habilitation in 1999 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he has been teaching since 1990. Between 1994 and 1995 he taught as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA).
Gerd Hurm has been working at the University of Trier since 2001 . There he teaches American literary studies and is director of the Trier Center for American Studies (TCAS), which he founded with Wolfgang Klooss in 2004. He was visiting professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass in the fall of 2002 . ( USA ) and from 2006 to 2007 as visiting professor of the Fulbright Commission at Portland State University , Portland (USA).
His research interests include modern and postmodern (urban literature, beat generation ), rhetoric and media (US presidential election campaigns) and national myth-making. In recent years he has turned to the American post-war era, including a. in articles and lectures on Allen Ginsberg , James Dean or Jack Kerouac . In 2005 he participated in the exhibition project Coolhunters (ZKM Karlsruhe). In 2007 he published the interdisciplinary anthology Rebels Without a Cause (Peter Lang Verlag) as co-editor , which encourages a redefinition of this epoch. In summer 2009 he was co-curator of the exhibition Motorcycle: Acceleration and Rebellion? at the European Art Academy in Trier .
Publications
Monographs
- Fragmented Urban Images: The American City in Modern Fiction from Stephen Crane to Thomas Pynchon . Peter Lang, Bern 1991
- Rewriting the Vernacular Mark Twain: The Aesthetics and Politics of Orality in Samuel Clemens ’s Fictions. Scientific publishing house Trier WVT, 2003
- Edward Steichen . Ed. Saint Paul, Luxembourg 2019
editor
- (with Paul Goetsch) The Fourth of July: Political Oratory and Literary Reactions, 1776–1876. ScriptOralia, 45th Narr, Tübingen 1992
- (with Paul Goetsch) The rhetoric of American presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt . ScriptOralia, 54. Narr, Tübingen 1993
- (with Paul Goetsch) Important Speeches by American Presidents after 1945. Series: Anglistik & Englischunterricht, 54. Winter, Heidelberg 1994
- (with Ann Marie Fallon) Rebels without a Cause? Renegotiating the American 1950s. Peter Lang, Bern 2007
- (with Anke Reitz, Shamoon Zamir) The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age IB Tauris, London 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd Hurm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personal page on the website of the University of Trier
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hurm, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor for American studies and head of the Trier Center for American Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberndorf am Neckar |